Genesis 11:3

World English Bible (2000)

They said one to another, "Come, let's make bricks, and burn them thoroughly." They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.

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  • Gen 14:10 : 10 Now the valley of Siddim was full of tar pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and they fell there, and those who remained fled to the hills.
  • Exod 1:14 : 14 and they made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and in brick, and in all kinds of service in the field, all their service, in which they ruthlessly made them serve.
  • Exod 2:3 : 3 When she could no longer hide him, she took a papyrus basket for him, and coated it with tar and with pitch. She put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river's bank.
  • Exod 5:7-9 : 7 "You shall no longer give the people straw to make brick, as before. Let them go and gather straw for themselves. 8 The number of the bricks, which they made before, you require from them. You shall not diminish anything of it, for they are idle; therefore they cry, saying, 'Let us go and sacrifice to our God.' 9 Let heavier work be laid on the men, that they may labor therein; and don't let them pay any attention to lying words." 10 The taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spoke to the people, saying, "This is what Pharaoh says: 'I will not give you straw. 11 Go yourselves, get straw where you can find it, for nothing of your work shall be diminished.'" 12 So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw. 13 The taskmasters were urgent saying, "Fulfill your work quota daily, as when there was straw!" 14 The officers of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded, "Why haven't you fulfilled your quota both yesterday and today, in making brick as before?" 15 Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried to Pharaoh, saying, "Why do you deal this way with your servants? 16 No straw is given to your servants, and they tell us, 'Make brick!' and behold, your servants are beaten; but the fault is in your own people." 17 But he said, "You are idle! You are idle! Therefore you say, 'Let us go and sacrifice to Yahweh.' 18 Go therefore now, and work, for no straw shall be given to you, yet you shall deliver the same number of bricks!"
  • 2 Sam 12:31 : 31 He brought forth the people who were therein, and put them under saws, and under iron picks, and under axes of iron, and made them pass through the brick kiln: and he did so to all the cities of the children of Ammon. David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.
  • Ps 64:5 : 5 They encourage themselves in evil plans. They talk about laying snares secretly. They say, "Who will see them?"
  • Prov 1:11 : 11 If they say, "Come with us, Let's lay in wait for blood; let's lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;
  • Eccl 2:1 : 1 I said in my heart, "Come now, I will test you with mirth: therefore enjoy pleasure;" and behold, this also was vanity.
  • Isa 5:5 : 5 Now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away its hedge, and it will be eaten up. I will break down its wall of it, and it will be trampled down.
  • Isa 9:10 : 10 "The bricks have fallen, but we will build with cut stone. The sycamore fig trees have been cut down, but we will put cedars in their place."
  • Isa 41:6-7 : 6 Everyone helps his neighbor. They say to their brothers, "Be strong!" 7 So the carpenter encourages the goldsmith. He who smoothes with the hammer encourages him who strikes the anvil, saying of the soldering, "It is good;" and he fastens it with nails, that it might not totter.
  • Isa 65:3 : 3 a people who provoke me to my face continually, sacrificing in gardens, and burning incense on bricks;
  • Nah 3:14 : 14 Draw water for the siege. Strengthen your fortresses. Go into the clay, and tread the mortar. Make the brick kiln strong.
  • Heb 3:13 : 13 but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called "today;" lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
  • Heb 10:24 : 24 Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,
  • Jas 4:13 : 13 Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow let's go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit."
  • Jas 5:1 : 1 Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you.
  • Gen 11:4 : 4 They said, "Come, let's build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let's make ourselves a name, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth."
  • Gen 11:7 : 7 Come, let's go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech."

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 11:4-9
    6 verses
    88%

    4 They said, "Come, let's build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let's make ourselves a name, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth."

    5 Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.

    6 Yahweh said, "Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do.

    7 Come, let's go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech."

    8 So Yahweh scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.

    9 Therefore its name was called Babel, because there Yahweh confused the language of all the earth. From there, Yahweh scattered them abroad on the surface of all the earth.

  • Gen 11:1-2
    2 verses
    84%

    1 The whole earth was of one language and of one speech.

    2 It happened, as they traveled east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they lived there.

  • Nah 3:14
    72%

    14 Draw water for the siege. Strengthen your fortresses. Go into the clay, and tread the mortar. Make the brick kiln strong.

  • Exod 5:7-9
    3 verses
    71%

    7 "You shall no longer give the people straw to make brick, as before. Let them go and gather straw for themselves.

    8 The number of the bricks, which they made before, you require from them. You shall not diminish anything of it, for they are idle; therefore they cry, saying, 'Let us go and sacrifice to our God.'

    9 Let heavier work be laid on the men, that they may labor therein; and don't let them pay any attention to lying words."

  • Exod 5:18-19
    2 verses
    71%

    18 Go therefore now, and work, for no straw shall be given to you, yet you shall deliver the same number of bricks!"

    19 The officers of the children of Israel saw that they were in trouble, when it was said, "You shall not diminish anything from your daily quota of bricks!"

  • Zech 5:11
    70%

    11 He said to me, "To build her a house in the land of Shinar. When it is prepared, she will be set there in her own place."

  • Ezek 11:3
    69%

    3 who say, [The time] is not near to build houses: this [city] is the caldron, and we are the flesh.

  • Exod 1:14
    68%

    14 and they made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and in brick, and in all kinds of service in the field, all their service, in which they ruthlessly made them serve.

  • Exod 1:11
    68%

    11 Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. They built storage cities for Pharaoh: Pithom and Raamses.

  • Exod 5:16
    68%

    16 No straw is given to your servants, and they tell us, 'Make brick!' and behold, your servants are beaten; but the fault is in your own people."

  • Ezek 13:15
    68%

    15 Thus will I accomplish my wrath on the wall, and on those who have plastered it with whitewash; and I will tell you, The wall is no more, neither those who plastered it;

  • Ezek 13:11-12
    2 verses
    68%

    11 tell those who plaster it with whitewash, that it shall fall: there shall be an overflowing shower; and you, great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall tear it.

    12 Behold, when the wall has fallen, shall it not be said to you, Where is the plaster with which you have plastered it?

  • Ezra 5:4
    67%

    4 Then we told them in this way, what the names of the men were who were making this building.

  • Lev 14:42
    67%

    42 They shall take other stones, and put them in the place of those stones; and he shall take other mortar, and shall plaster the house.

  • Gen 14:10
    67%

    10 Now the valley of Siddim was full of tar pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and they fell there, and those who remained fled to the hills.

  • Luke 17:29
    67%

    29 but in the day that Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire and sulfur from the sky, and destroyed them all.